S9 Ep988: Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Raising Girls, Gay Identity, and the LXX: Q & A with Preston
Theology in the Raw
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Is Life Beginning at Fertilization?
The debate is, when does personhood begin? And so i have several quotes from proa choice scholars. Doyou care about this em oh, where are they? Hans kong, famous, a catholic scholar. A fertilized ovum, evidently, is human life, but not a person. What is critical is personal status,. say joseph fletcher, a peter singer, famous ethesist. The life of a human organism begins at conception, but the life of a person, a being with some level of self awareness doesn't begin so early.
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